Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Bone marrow registry recruits minorities

By Rebecca Cress, The Dartmouth Staff

There are 6.6 million bone marrow donors registered with the National Marrow Donor Program, yet the odds of a minority patient finding a compatible donor is 20,000 to one, according to the Cammy Lee Leukemia Foundation web site. Dartmouth students tried to add a few more names to the donor list with a marrow drive held in Collis Common Ground on Tuesday. More »

Students suffer from depression, anxiety

By Drew Joseph and Amita Kulkarni, The Dartmouth Staff

_Editor's Note: This is the first in a three-part series examining mental health at the College. Today's article explores Dartmouth students' experiences with mental health disorders and the student response to mental illness on campus._ More »

Students explore intersection of religion, sexuality

By Kashay Sanders, The Dartmouth Staff

Lamenting perceived religious intolerance to homosexuality and debat how to interpret the Bible in a sexual context, Q-Faith, a new student group, hosted its first discussion forum, "Rethinking Faithful Sexuality," on Tuesday night at the Tucker Foundation. More »

ORL's new housing plan stirs SA debate

By Susan Matthews, The Dartmouth Staff

In response to recent changes in the College's eligibility standards for on-campus housing, Student Assembly pledged to explore other housing options with the Office of Residential Life and possibly create a database of available off-campus housing at Tuesday's Assembly meeting. More »

Epstein sheds new light on cause of HIV crisis in Africa

By Andrew Wells, The Dartmouth Staff

While many scholars have pointed to a lack of condom use and impulsive promiscuity in examining the prevalence of HIV in southeast Africa, the practice of men and women having multiple long-term, concurrent sexual relationships may be more to blame, author Helen Epstein said in her lecture, "The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West and the Fight against AIDS," on Tuesday afternoon in Filene auditorium. More »

Daily Debriefing

By Anya Perret, The Dartmouth Staff
  • When citizens of Brattleboro, Vt., voted in their Democratic primary and school board elections Tuesday, they also voted on a measure calling for the indictment of President George W. More »
  • Derrick Nelson Begaye, one of three men charged with the murder of Nicole Redhorse '95, was convicted of the lesser charges of sexual assault, abuse of a corpse and misrepresentation of a situation to the authorities, according to The Durango Herald. More »
  • Following requests from six female Muslim students, Harvard University has closed one of its gyms to men for a few designated hours, three days a week. More »